Game Enjambment: And I Have Touched the Sky [Kingdom Hearts]

With Kingdom Hearts III due out in January, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about one of the game’s protagonists, Riku, and how his story throughout the series is so inextricably tied to Sora.

Asleep
Without knowing, you dove
reaching through the nightmares
his dreams held in your grasp
You couldn’t let him go.Aching
Oh, broken boy, it hurts
to see his heart lunge towards danger
without a thought
to fractures.Abandoned
You walked that path once
not seeing that he walked with you
hearts entwined in light
when darkness pulled.Alone
But were you really?
When his splintered thoughts were of you
when his legs gave out at last
and his hand found yours.Awake
How wonderful that hope
lies in the smile of a carefree boy
whom you swore to protect
with all your heart.

Azha Reyes spends entirely too much time playing video games, and even more time rambling about them. They’ve been known to cry about character development on occasion. They rarely shut up at @writethenoise on Twitter, if that’s your kind of thing.